Birth: 6:30am 25 November 1898 Harcarse Hill, Swinton, Berwickshire, Scotland, UK
Father: John Purves 1859-1927
Mother: Mary Waite Edgar 1868-1949
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: Believed not married
Death: 1977 Ladykirk, Berwickshire, Scottish Borders, Scotland, UK
None known
Entry in the Register of Births for Jane Nisbet (sic) Purves in 1898 in Swinton (755/ 24). "Page 8 1898 Births in the Parish of Swinton in the County of Berwick [...] [No.] 24 Jane Nis?t [illegible] Purves 1898 November Twenty Fifth 6h 30M A.M. Harcarse Hill [parents] John Purves Farm Servant [and] Mary Purves M.S. Edgar [married] 1898 June 24th Swinton [informant] John Purves Father [in] 1898 Present at birth At Swinton". Her twin brother was born at 7am and registered in the next entry No. 25 on Page 9. Her grandmother's maiden name was Nisbet.
In the 1901 census as Jane Purves aged 2, born in Swinton, Berwickshire, and living with her parents (John and Mary), and brother (Peter) at Simprim Farm Cottages, Swinton, Berwickshire.
Her sister was born at Simprim in 1902.
In the 1911 census as Jeanie Purves aged 12, born in Swinton, Berwick, and living with her parents (John and Mary), brother (Peter), and sister (Agnes) in two rooms with windows at Simprim Farm, Swinton, Berwickshire. Her uncle (Thomas) was living next door, two aunts (Mary and Jane) were next door to them.
In the 1921 census as Jane Nesbit Purves aged 22 years 7 months, born in Swinton, Berwick, single, an agricultural worker employed by J E Hutchinson, Farmer, and living with her parents (John and Mary Waite), brother (Peter) and sister (Agnes) in two rooms at Homebank, Eccles, Berwickshire.
Jane Nesbit (sic) Purves of Homebank, Coldstream was a witness at the marriage of her sister Agnes and John White on 24 April 1925 in Eccles.Her twin brother Peter died in in Ladykirk, Swinton and Whitsome in 1976.
Entry in the Register of Deaths for Jane Nisbet Purves, mother's maiden name Edgar, in 1977 aged 78 in Ladykirk, Swinton and Whitsome (786/ 4).
There are four entries in Ancestry Family Trees for Jane Purves.
Jane Nisbet Purves was the first cousin of Peter Purves, husband of Isabella Richardson Steele, wife of Robert James Gordon, father of Irene Alice Gordon, wife of George William Barton, brother of Dennis Alfred Barton, my brother-in-law.
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